Named Entity Results, Sir W. Butler

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illiam H. Payne, who served under General Early, and than whom I know no more gallant officer or competent judge, that the publication of these records, which has destroyed so many reputations, will only add to his.
It has been said by Colonel Sir W. Butler, the biographer of General Charles George Gordon, that it is the victor who writes history and counts the dead, and to the vanquished there only remains the dull memory of an unnumbered and unwritten sorrow.
But in the case of our war wend Grant, expecting him to meet Hunter at Charlottesville, they were to return together to the Army of the Potomac.
Neither of these commanders met at the tryst, for on June 11th Hampton had intercepted Sheridan at Trevilians with Fitz Lee's and Butler's Divisions, and after the bloodiest cavalry battle of the war, Sheridan had retired all the way to the White-House on the York river; Hampton, victorious, had returned to Lee, and Lynchburg, for the time being, had by him been saved.
But Hunter